Data Scientist – Asset Management

24 hours ago

Nairobi Nairobi City Nairobi Kenya ICEA Lion Group Full time 1,500,000 - 3,000,000 per year

As a DataScientist – Asset Management in the ICEA LION Data Analytics Team, you willwork closely with investment and data professionals across ICEA LION AssetManagement to proactively source, due diligence and draw insights from in -houseinvestment and alternative data. The role will help develop and driveinnovative solutions for amplifying data -driven investment decision -making,improved client engagement, and operational effectiveness. This role willassist in all phases of project work, including problem identification,formulation, model development, and deployment. Key Responsibilities • Work with portfolio managers to understandsources of alpha and opportunities to improve decision -making process• Build tools and systems to understanddecision data, context and events around it to enhance ICEA LION AssetManagement's decision attribution capabilities and systematically identifyopportunities• Work with partners in technology and userexperience to build out tools providing real -time insights to portfoliomanagers and their teams• Take part in projects along the full datascience spectrum. From data acquisition and wrangling, to model selection topresentation and data visualization.• Analyze and visualize diverse sources of data,interpret results in a business context and report results clearly andconcisely • Work collaboratively with different businesspartners and be able to present results in a clear and concise manner • Assist with developing and deploying educationalworkshops/seminar series for staff to accelerate data maturity. • Communicate results/findings; draft and editscientific abstracts, presentations, and journal articles. • Present work at workshops, seminars, andconference proceedings within and outside of the company. If you matchthe qualifications and experienced of any of the jobs here, submit your CVquoting the job title on the subject line to ;\/a> by 26th April 2024. Requirements• Bachelor's degree in Actuarial Science, ComputerScience, Data Science, Engineering, Statistics, Economics, Mathematics,Business or Physics • Master's degree and professional qualificationswill be added advantage. • Qualified or Nearly Qualified CFA will be addedadvantage • 1 -3 years relevant experience in FinancialServices• Prior experience working in alpha capture,performance attribution or trading / decision analytics role will be addedadvantage• Strong analytical/modelling skills and businessorientation with proven ability to use data and analytics to drive businessresults; strong technical background• Demonstrate solid experience working within adata team, including Time series analysis and modelling; Training andfine -tuning of the Machine Learning model for investment models; Strongknowledge of Python for data scientists (e.g., pandas), traditional MachineLearning and deep learning libraries (e.g., scikit learn, xgboost, TensorFlow,Torch, etc.); Data manipulation languages (e.g., SQL); Data visualization /presentation skills (e.g., Tableau, PowerBI and DOMO)• Demonstrate experience working with engineering,developers and other technology teams - Writing production quality code, unittesting and familiarity with version control; Familiar with cloud -basedtechnologies.• Strong communications skills (both verbal andwritten) and the ability to present findings to a non -technical audience Passionfor learning and adopting a wide range of techniques in an agile environment

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